Pretty darn close is not a perfect vacuum no matter how you dress it up.
And with this simple one-liner,
sceptimatic has proven once and for all that he has absolutely
zero concept of any or all scientific principles and practices.
I hate to introduce some actual science into
sceptimatic's "denpressure" topic. It's a hard job, but someone has to do it.
In the LHC (large hadron collider) in Switzerland, the CERN took nearly
two weeks to reduce the pressures in the collider's beam arcs down to below 1.013 × 10
-10 mbar, or the equivalent of 10
-13 atmospheres. In these arcs, the ultra-high vacuum is maintained by cryogenic pumping of 9,000m
3 of gas, plus maintaining a temperature of –271.3°C.
So... yeah... pretty darn close to a perfect vacuum.